Hi! I'm a Kansas City-based software architect and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building impactful products and helping businesses cut through the hype and ship technology that actually works. I love ideating and building, and I bring both technical depth and people skills to everything I do — my background includes counseling alongside the engineering.
Through Sunset Labs & Hopeware, I work with startups and growing companies on architecture, AI strategy, and the messy realities of getting things built. Previously, I led technology at New Story, a housing non-profit recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies, while I was leading the tech, including the work behind the world's first 3D-printed community (Apple even filmed a documentary about it). Before that, I helped launch and taught at The Iron Yard, at the time the largest code school in the world.